On 11/03/2009 11:00, Philip Stubbs wrote:
2009/3/11 Adam Bagnall:
As neither sage nor office require 3d acceleration you could run windows
in a virtual machine using virtualbox. This would prevent any problems
with grub being overwritten and you wouldn't have to reboot to do the
windows work
Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 2009/3/11 Adam Bagnall :
>
>> As neither sage nor office require 3d acceleration you could run windows
>> in a virtual machine using virtualbox. This would prevent any problems
>> with grub being overwritten and you wouldn't have to reboot to do the
>> windows work. The on
2009/3/11 Adam Bagnall :
> As neither sage nor office require 3d acceleration you could run windows
> in a virtual machine using virtualbox. This would prevent any problems
> with grub being overwritten and you wouldn't have to reboot to do the
> windows work. The only caveat is that you need a fai
2009/3/11 danattwood
> Have you considered using Virtualbox or similar? Virtulization is a
> great way of running an XP install for thing likes Sage and Word and you
> won't have to muck about with Grub.
>
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Howard Berry wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have been quite happy using Ubuntu so that I decided to get rid of
> XP . This was precipitated by the fact that I was also running out of
> disk space. Now I have been given some work to do using Sage and
> "Microsaft" Office. So I will have to put XP back.
You can use the livecd to reinstall grub, or supergrub - easily
accomplished either way.
If you are though just using xp to run sage will running it in a virtual
machine be sufficient - if that was the case you could run xp inside
ubuntu and not need to worry - just a thought
Kev
Howard Berry wr
Have you considered using Virtualbox or similar? Virtulization is a
great way of running an XP install for thing likes Sage and Word and you
won't have to muck about with Grub.
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Hello All,
I have been quite happy using Ubuntu so that I decided to get rid of XP .
This was precipitated by the fact that I was also running out of disk space.
Now I have been given some work to do using Sage and "Microsaft" Office. So
I will have to put XP back. I have bought another hard drive
